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American Society for Microbiology, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 4(67), p. 1959-1963, 2001

DOI: 10.1128/aem.67.4.1959-1963.2001

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Identification of Methyl Halide-Utilizing Genes in the Methyl Bromide-Utilizing Bacterial Strain IMB-1 Suggests a High Degree of Conservation of Methyl Halide-Specific Genes in Gram-Negative Bacteria

Journal article published in 2001 by Claire A. Woodall ORCID, Karen L. Warner, Ronald S. Oremland, J. Colin Murrell, J. Colin Murrell, Ian R. McDonald
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Abstract

ABSTRACT Strain IMB-1, an aerobic methylotrophic member of the alpha subgroup of the Proteobacteria , can grow with methyl bromide as a sole carbon and energy source. A single c mu gene cluster was identified in IMB-1 that contained six open reading frames: cmuC, cmuA, orf146, paaE, hutI , and partial metF . CmuA from IMB-1 has high sequence homology to the methyltransferase CmuA from Methylobacterium chloromethanicum and Hyphomicrobium chloromethanicum and contains a C-terminal corrinoid-binding motif and an N-terminal methyltransferase motif. However, cmuB , identified in M. chloromethanicum and H. chloromethanicum, was not detected in IMB-1.